As a decades long staple to the listening audience, Morning Edition combines a host program in St. Paul and NPR hosts in Washington and Los Angeles, bringing news from overnight and information throughout the state and world. Programming includes reports and interviews.
April 10, 2012 - MPR’s Brandt Williams covers the Minnesota Twins 2012 home opener against the Anaheim Angels, and previews the upcoming season…will they be any good this year?
April 13, 2012 - Kent Hrbek joins Morning Edition’s Cathy Wurzer to discuss the unveiling of a Kent Hrbek bronze statue outside Target Field in Minneapolis. Hrbek will join Harmon Killebrew, Tony Oliva, Rod Carew, and Kirby Puckett as the only players to be immortalized in bronze outside the ballpark.
May 4, 2012 - Morning Edition’s Cathy Wurzer talks with Ojibwe author Anton Truer about his book "Everything You Wanted to Know About Indians But Were Afraid to Ask."
May 15, 2012 - MPR’s Curtis Gilbert presents part one of a Special Report on storm preparedeness in the Twin Cities. The reports follows a simulated tornado track through the metro. The massive tornado outbreak that struck the Twin Cities area in 1965 is used as an example of what could occur again.
May 15, 2012 - MPR’s Curtis Gilbert presents part two of a Special Report on storm preparedeness in the Twin Cities. The reports follows a simulated tornado track through the metro. The massive tornado outbreak that struck the Twin Cities area in 1965 is used as an example of what could occur again.
May 18, 2012 - As part of the Minnesota Mix series, MPR’s Nikki Tundel reports on the Qhia Dab Neeg Film Festival in St. Paul. Qhia Dab Neeg means "storytelling" in Hmong. Tundel talks with the festival director and a filmmaker about the message of normalizing the perspective of a Hmong American here in the U.S.
June 5, 2012 - Howard Sinker, digital sports editor for Star-Tribune.com, gives an appraisal of the potential picks for the Minnesota Twins in the Major League Baseball Draft. In 2011, only one major league team finished with a worse record than Minnesota and because of that year's dismal performance, the Twins will have the second overall pick in the amateur player draft.
June 19, 2012 - Minnesota's 1st Congressional District appears to be ripe territory for Republicans. Yet political observers say DFL Congressman Tim Walz stands a good chance of winning a fourth term despite voting much maligned Democratic priorities such as the health care overhaul and financial reform. MPR’s Brett Neely looks at how Walz has balanced a relatively liberal voting record in a somewhat conservative rural district.
June 20, 2012 - MPR’s Dan Kraker interviews residents in Duluth about their experiences during intense rainstorm and subsequent flooding.
August 3, 2012 - MPR’s Dan Gunderson reports on cowboy mounted shooting, an event that attracts competitors with a hankering for the Wild West. A growing number of Minnesotans are competing in the little-known sport that combines horses, guns and split-second timing.